24 May 2016

White Dwarf #121 review - Mighty Heroes

24 May 2016

Soon, I will post the first part of the Warhammer Quest Silver Tower review, but today I will share with you a handful of my personal reflections, by reviewing the White Dwarf #121 (you can find my White Dwarf #120 review here).

New Releases / Nowe wydania

White Dwarf #121, just like the previous one, is dedicated to Warhammer Quest Silver Tower and this week Games Workshop released their first expansion for the Quest: Mighty Heroes. Inside you will find 4 plastic miniatures available earlier on GW website: a Tzeentch Sorcerer Lord (single model is currently sold out), a Khorne Bloodbound Slaughterpriest, a Stormcast Eternals Knight-Venator (which you can also make as a Knight Azyros) and a Fyreslayers Auric Runemaster.

If you were expecting to see the warscrolls for Mighty Heroes I must dissapoint you. Those warscrolls are in fact at the end of the book included in the Silver Tower box. There are only 4 pages dedicated to Mighty Heroes in this week's issue! In my opinion, the new heroes of the Quest are shown very badly, but maybe this is due to the prior presence of those miniatures in the market. Mighty Heroes is a very cost effective bundle, but I really hate that the Silver Tower is incomplete without them, even though there are warscrolls for them.

This week there are also 3 Black Library releases: a new edition of the trilogy dedicated to the adventures of Commissar Ciaphas Cain; the limited book Space Marines Legends Cassius, in which Ben Counter tells the story of the Utramarines Chaplain Ortan Cassius; audiobook The Realmgate Wars: Great Red, saying the story of one dubious Stormcast Eternals and Orruks alliance.

Paint Splatter / Rozpryski farby

White Dwarf #121 contains detailed painting tutorials for Kairic Adept and Excelsior Warpriest. There are also descriptive tutorials for other denizens of the Silver Tower. In my opinion, only the way of painting Excelsior Warpriest's coat and a very cool Gryph-hound's stripes deserves your attention. Descriptive tutorials for painting Ogroid Thaumaturge, Grot Scutlings, Pink Horrors, Blue Horrors and Brimstone Horrors are dull and just indicate what colours has been used.

Parade Ground / Parada

In this section we can find the heroes from the Quest painted by the White Dwarf team. Unfortunately, only the Pink Horror conversion is interesting - it is representing the Librarian and used 2 Burning Chariots of Tzeentch parts. Other miniatures, especially the Horrors and Familiars, are not well painted (not enough time?).

Warscrolls / Bitewne zwoje

As was announced, in this White Dwarf issue you can find the warscroll for the Lord of Plagues of Nurgle to use this hero in the Quest. For me, it is incomprehensible why GW couldn't do a double sided warscroll, easy to cut out without having to destroy the magazine. As far as spacing is concerned, the whole issue presents itself very badly.

Inside the White Dwarf #121 we can also find warscrolls for Ogroid Thaumaturge, Blue Horrors, Brimstone Horrors, Tzaangors, Kairic Acolytes, Grot Scutlings, Skaven Deathrunner and the Gaunt Summoner and Chaos Familiars to use them in the game of Age of Sigmar. At this point I should use several obscene words to describe the warscroll presentation of the Gaunt Summoner and his Familiars - there is no picture of the Gaunt Summoner! Once again, I got the impression that they ran out of paper..

Architects of fate / Architekci przeznaczenia

This part is entirely devoted to the people behind the release of the Quest, both sculptors and creators of the game. Here we can find some interesting and valuable comments on the history of the heroes of the Silver Tower (including great graphics from the legendary John Blanche), the development and board tiles concepts (eg. the tattoos on Ogroid Thaumaturge are also appearing on the tiles in his lair) and the links, similarities and changes to the old Quest.

The week in White Dwarf / Tydzień z White Dwarfem

In this section you will find comments, opinions and other trivia about the Silver Tower. There is also the excellent Kevin Chin graphic (which you can also find in the Quest box) representing 4 manifestations of Tzeentch deciding the fate of the hero in the ocean of destiny. The Blue Horrors are back so GW advertised the Blue Scribes and the Burning Chariot of Tzeentch set (which includes 3 blue daemons). The miniature of the week is a quite interesting Plasma Obliterator. There is also (as usual) a picture of the Imperial Knight, in this case in the form of the Knight Errant.

Summary / Podsumowanie

White Dwarf #121 is almost entirely devoted to the Warhammer Quest Silver Tower and this week is the release of the first Quest expansion - Mighty Heroes. The set is very cost effective, because in fact we get 4 heroes for the price of 3, but this issue of the White Dwarf doesn't contain their warscrolls. They are included in the Silver Tower box. This week's magazine is uninteresting, but it's still a must for all of the Tzeentch and the Quest fans (mostly because of the warscrolls for the denizens of the Silver Tower to use them in the Age of Sigmar). 121 issue of the White Dwarf seems underdeveloped and very poor. My rating: 3+.

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